Print problems E332n on Kubuntu
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at acm.org
Tue Nov 10 07:55:53 PST 2009
Gus Zernial wrote:
> I have Kubuntu 9.04 with a custom 2.6.28.9 kernel. My printer
> is a Lexmark E332n. My PPD file is a modified version of that
> for mac OS/X, as apparently there is no E332n PPD for Linux.
>
> Printing with this setup has worked for some time, but recently
> print jobs periodically started failing. Simply - no print. I have
> tried canceling the failed print jobs, restarting the CUPS daemon
> and deleting/reinstalling the printer. After the delete/reinstall
> it will work for a while, then fail again. Sample output from
> /var/log/cups/error_log for a failed job is:
>
> E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800] [Job 741] May not be a PDF file (continuing
> anyway) E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800] [Job 741] PDF file is damaged -
> attempting to reconstruct xref table... E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800]
> [Job 741] Couldn't find trailer dictionary E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800]
> [Job 741] Couldn't read xref table E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800] PID
> 30441 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf) stopped with status 1! E
> [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800] [Job 741] pdftops filter exited with status
> 1! E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800] [Job 741] Empty print file! E
> [09/Nov/2009:16:55:11 -0800] PID 30442 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps)
> stopped with status 1! E [09/Nov/2009:16:55:16 -0800] [Job 741] Job
> stopped due to filter errors. E [09/Nov/2009:18:06:13 -0800] PID 5574
> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf) stopped with status 127!
>
> BTW this is *not* a PDF job - it is a (Thunderbird) email.
> Would appreciate help .....
Pleas post (an URL to) the input causing this errors and your xxx.types and
xxx.convs.
It seems that the scheduler identifies the input as PDF errouneously.
Helge
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